ARAM - Isn't Random

JustaNewb·Feb 3, 2018·9 votes·3,606 views

RIOT, can you please just finally get honest and admit that ARAM is NOT Random? Proof? Easily done... Ryze 19 games in a row... for ME. I own 48 champions on this account, and I get Ryze 19 games in a row to either reroll or trade. There is no possible way this is Random, because that is statistically impossible.

It's fine if it isn't actually Random, however you might as well change the game mode name:

There is no Mid in this, All Random All Mid doesn't make sense any more.
It isn't random. Enough people have noticed this to a severe degree that any argument to the contrary is fallacious.

** Edit **

Got bored. Want to know the odds against getting a champion 20 times in a row (rounding), out of 48?

87,817,993,537,467,267,453,437,463,232,512 : 1 - Against

16 Comments

Dead flag bluesFeb 4, 20184 votes

Hello fellow ARAM player. I also noticed for a while that ARAM isn't random, but recently I've noticed something even worse, is that one team (or sometimes both) are made around a similar "comp". Mostly 2 ADCs, one mage poke and 2 tanks / 1 tank and a support / another support. Not sure if something was changed, but it seems like it only happened like 2 patches ago. It's really frustrating to deal with it, especially when the enemy team has 2 adcs while you don't have any, meaning first ace for you = 50% of the hp tower while first ace for them is first tower + 20% of second tower.

JustaNewbFeb 4, 20181 votes

Yeah... it would appear that countless teams are basically Meta Picked, and they choose from champions of popularity.

Unfortunately this does mean, yes, that many ARAM games are decided in champion select... which we don't have control over like Draft.

A Sweaty KidApr 1, 20192 votes

yeah I googled "aram isnt random" after getting either poppy or sion at least 50% of the ARAM games i get into. Its so lame. I probably have only gotten champs I actually like to play maybe 3 times this season. I have gotten zed 1 time in probably 100 aram games and have gotten poppy probably 35 times. It just genuinely doesnt make sense to me why they wouldnt make it random. aram isnt suppose to be taken that seriously so why do they feel the need to fuck with it.

JustaNewbFeb 4, 20181 votes

Another thing... why was it EVER named ARAM? This one is just academic curiosity... I mean, before the mode existed we'd just scream it in chat and hope everyone went with it. Then again, there used to only be one mode.

AbueFeb 11, 20181 votes

It was named ARAM after people started doing fights only on mid lane of summoner's war. ALL RANDOM ALL MID. ALL RANDOM Mode already existed in DOTA, but the whole ALL MID thing turning into more into a brawl was more of a novelty. Eventually, howling abyss was available as a custom map and that's where the aram games began in league.

JustaNewbFeb 12, 20181 votes

Well, yeah, no... I know where it started, and why. I meant why Howling Abyss was ever named ARAM... specifically. We used to do ARAM in LoL too, back when Normals was the only game mode. Granted, you'd have to see if the enemy team would join you in mid, but hey.

LearndingMay 27, 20181 votes

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Another thing... why was it EVER named ARAM? This one is just academic curiosity... I mean, before the mode existed we'd just scream it in chat and hope everyone went with it. Then again, there used to only be one mode.

Because it was a Dominion game mode same with All Random All Bottom, Dominion created about 99% of the current gamemodes you know of or heard about in League of Legends.

5kullDec 12, 20181 votes

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Another thing... why was it EVER named ARAM? This one is just academic curiosity... I mean, before the mode existed we'd just scream it in chat and hope everyone went with it. Then again, there used to only be one mode.

there were game changing codes you could type into the OG DOTA back in the day, such as AR= all random, DM= death match. you could follow them together to edit your game comically such as, AREMDMDU = all random easy mode death match duplicate mode. i assumed ARAM was a throwback to these codes

MakaiTigerFeb 4, 20181 votes

I've always kind of felt the same way. I play a lot of ARAM games, and I've noticed that not only do I seem to play the same champs over and over, (which is almost never the champs I main, but that's a different story) my team and the enemy team always seem to be made up of the same champs. Like.. sometimes I'll play 6 games in a row and see Illaoi in 5-6 of them, stuff like that. It just seems like an odd coincidence.

JustaNewbFeb 4, 20181 votes

I have a feeling that their "randomized" script still aims at both a Meta, and popular draft choices.

Basically either completely screws you, or gives you a basic Meta Comp of generally banned or played champions from Draft.

Nea104Feb 4, 20181 votes

It's not random, it's somehow related to their matchmaking system, which is flawed by its own (% win ratio...) So what comes out isn't really good :D

JustaNewbFeb 4, 20181 votes

See? Whereas it could just as easily work off of the same functionality as the old "random" button we had in Normals. It would randomly select from champions you owned and lock in.

DauyeFeb 8, 20201 votes

After all these years I got sick of aram finally... The afks, the stupid so called random characters that appear in every game for a week or so, the character that you own and love and never got rolled out... I'm fed up.

Sona PingFeb 8, 20201 votes

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After all these years I got sick of aram finally... The afks, the stupid so called random characters that appear in every game for a week or so, the character that you own and love and never got rolled out... I'm fed up.

Don't bump 2 year old discussions. especially not to bitch about ARAM of all things.